I have a terrible fear of being an animal (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Cesar Vallejo
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Fear, Human behavior, Life, biological, Animals, Senses or sensation, Snow, Logic, Smell, Odors
The Poem
“I have a terrible fear of being an animal” is a poem of twenty-seven lines that is divided into four stanzas. It is in free verse and makes ample use of internal rhyme and assonance in the original Spanish. One of the dated poems in Poemas humanos, this poem bears the date of October 22, 1937.
The poem is actually untitled; using its first line as its title is a convenience for scholars, critics, translators, and students, not the wish of the poet. The first line, however, does reveal more about the poem and the poet in what it does not say than in...
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